Month: August 2014

The very first Fredric March performance I saw was actually during the “William Holden phase” of my classic film self-education. The film was the 1954 corporate boardroom drama Executive Suite. March has a supporting role as Loren […]

It’s Labor Day weekend, generally considered to be the last weekend of summer (though not technically so), and I currently sit on the Florida Gulf Coast, soaking in some much-needed sun. So for this week’s […]

By CARLEY JOHNSON Tomorrow, The Last of Robin Hood hits select theaters, and it’s been a film that the Maria has been tracking with keen interest for quite some time. Kevin Kline portrays Errol Flynn in […]

By MEAGHAN CLOHESSY It is nearly impossible to review Anton Corbijin’s A Most Wanted Man without the reminder of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death. The final two-hour performance (not counting his supporting role in the upcoming […]

When people think of fast-talking, hard-boiled, no-nonsense reporters they think of Hildy Johnson and Walter Burns in His Girl Friday; the charming Bill Chandler in Libeled Lady; Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in All The President’s […]

BY WADE SHEELER Tawdry, lurid, and angst-ridden, Richard Fleischer’s taut and titillating melodrama, Violent Saturday, plumbs the depths of post World War depravity and displays it in full, much like some of the better 1950s soap […]

By DREW MORTON The embodiment of America – John Wayne – plays a fish out of water Chicago police detective sent to London to extradite a gangster (John Vernon) in Brannigan (1975). The film is essentially one of […]

The Retro Set mourns the loss of the great Robin Williams. He brought laughter to the world, and gave us all precious memories that will never be forgotten. The following is a collection of remembrances from […]

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